A CROFT man has been shortlisted for this year’s RICS Young Surveyor of the Year award (Land Rural and Urban).
Jack Sharpe, aged 34, is director of Wigan-based property consultancy T Fazakerley and Son – the fifth generation of his family to work in the business founded by his great, great grandfather in the early 1900s.
He took over the business in January after being in practise for 10 years, working in Manchester and Cambridge where he worked for six years undertaking valuations of rural and residential property.
A rural surveyor by background, Jack is keen to grow the business in the North West, embracing changes and investing in new computer systems. The firm has recently taken on Heather Sargent to assist with residential sales and lettings – although they still employ Jack’s grandfather’s secretary, who has been with them since the mid 1970s.
The business has a number of clients in Culcheth and Croft and have recently been instructed to sell some land at Glazebury and also sold nine acres of rural land in Wigan.
